{"nrhp_refnum":"83003269","name":"King Lumber Company Warehouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"608 Preston Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Charlottesville (Independent City)","county":"Charlottesville","state":"VA","lat":38.035003275000065,"lon":-78.48619741899995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-08-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-storey brick warehouse at 608 Preston Avenue in Charlottesville, Virginia, built in 1909 for W. W. King and the King Lumber Company.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is the only surviving part of the King Lumber Company, one of Charlottesville's principal industries in the early 20th century. The company made building materials used across the United States, including at the University of Virginia, and by 1920 was the city's largest employer. The building also has vernacular stepped gables and corbeled cornice stops.","narrative":"Rising three storeys on Preston Avenue in Charlottesville, this brick warehouse dates to 1909 and is the last remaining piece of the King Lumber Company. W. W. King bought the lot in 1899 and later transferred it to the company, of which he was president. The company made building materials used across the country, including in buildings at the University of Virginia, and by 1920 was the city's largest employer, with over 300 workers. It went out of business by the 1930s, and the property was sold in 1933. Later owners used the building for storing plumbing and heating supplies. The vernacular structure has stepped gables, corbeled cornice stops, brick laid in American bond, a low-pitched metal roof, segmental-arched openings and a wheel window in the gable end. Its significance rests on its link to one of the city's principal early twentieth-century industries.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Listed in good condition and still used as a warehouse at the time of the 1980 survey; upper-level warehouse doors and all windows have been bricked or boarded up.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.669018-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/87/6786/41678687/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/83003269.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41678687","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Lumber_Company_Warehouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15238529"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/charlottesville/king-lumber-company-warehouse-83003269/"}